Reposted by Daniel LawlerChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46894593996
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 19/08/2026US drugmakers Merck and Moderna said Wednesday an experimental melanoma drug that delivers treatment tailored to a patient's specific tumor prevented the cancer from returning in a large clinical trial u.afp.com/SHyc 1379
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 20/08/2026Australia races to shield little penguins from highly contagious bird flu. H5N1 was detected in Australia for the first time in June and has since started to spread in local wildlife. The virus was detected this month in a dead Phillip Island penguin u.afp.com/SHyV 11912
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Glad this mentions Paris. During France's brutally hot summer, the hospital where my partner is about to give birth said the best they can do about their boiling rooms is let us bring in a portable AC unit. Why are so many here in favour of people suffering and dying needlessly? 021
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My story for AFP here! (Nice pierced reference, AFP's social team) 100
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18/08/2026Whales spark joy in New York but face threats from boat traffic. Once hunted to near extinction, the rebound of humpback whales is considered among the conservation movement's greatest success stories. Today, vessel strikes and entanglements are leading causes of whale deaths u.afp.com/SHzC 0257
Reposted by Daniel LawlerDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...nytimes.comU.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes. 16248872265
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 14/08/2026🌍 Areas of Europe home to more than 150 million people -- particularly in France, Germany, Spain and Italy -- are set for temperatures over 35C on Friday as the continent's latest heatwave spreads, according to AFP calculations. ➡️ u.afp.com/SH6G 12113
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 27/07/2026As Mary Beard writes in Women and Power, The Odyssey provides us with Western literature's "first recorded example of a man telling a woman to 'shut up'." How apt, then, to see so many men rubbishing a woman who translated The Odyssey on the basis that her views on the film are somehow invalid. 1114
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Sitting around waiting to give birth during the fifth heatwave of my third trimester, I made an eclipse playlist. open.qobuz.com/playlist/685... 372
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/08/2026🌓 😎 EXPLAINED: Everything you need to know about the August 12 solar eclipse A total #solareclipse will be visible across parts of Europe, including Spain and Iceland. Here's all you need to know about the rare event, where and when to see it, and how to stay safe if looking at the sun 0169
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10/08/2026Western Europe experienced its hottest June-July on record as climate change fuels an historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, EU's global warming monitor says. Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent u.afp.com/SHMQ 02517
Reposted by Daniel LawlerRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026gets incredible air here 256145503362
Reposted by Daniel LawlerKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It's shocking that after less than 3 months this outbreak has grown bigger than an outbreak that ran for almost 2 years. A big part of the explanation is what researchers have uncovered about what happened in Mongbwalu in the months before the epidemic was declared: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪science.orgEXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detectedA remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says 29641
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 31/07/2026🇵🇸 Hamas said Friday it had agreed to a deal announced by US President Donald Trump to end the war with Israel, that includes it handing over its weapons to a Palestinian governing committee and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrFS 1107
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Feels like we haven't yet finished arguing over whether the world had crossed 1.5 degrees... 000
Reposted by Daniel LawlerJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 24/07/2026No mention of climate change in this piece, or what "net zero" actually means and why it matters 57730
Reposted by Daniel LawlerEmma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When I first saw this I thought it was fake, but it has now been verified. From south-west France today, where 140,000 people have already been evacuated and many more told to prepare to leave. The horses were reportedly released from a riding stables in the fire zone 31810
Reposted by Daniel LawlerKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“Seven days after the girl’s medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction linked to the therapy…” This, in @science.org, is an important and tragic story. (It’s also an incredibly well reported one.) 🧪science.orgExclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals 614661
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/07/2026"I only have so many vertebrae, and they simply cannot carry your aspirations to fix whatever is wrong with you all, which, I further regret to tell you, is A LOT."buff.lyI’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back“I’m happy that the absurd proportion of my legs to my body fills you with a dim echo of what you used to call joy. I would be thrilled if your delight at me... 531581
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Very pleased that Desire Paths was Highly Commended at the National Biography Awards. Judges called it "a brilliant and thoroughly engaging debut memoir." www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/natio... 1112
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Extremely deserved plaudits for a marvellous book! 051
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23/07/2026Tyre, an ancient Phoenician city in southern Lebanon hit in recent months by Israeli bombardment, is added to the UNESCO list of world heritage sites in danger u.afp.com/SrPB 25247
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMartin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Just @meganclement.bsky.social highly commended in the National Biography Award for her memoir Desire Paths! www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...booksandpublishing.com.auNational Biography Award 2026 shortlist announced | Books+PublishingPurchase a subscription to view job ads and other premium content on Books+Publishing. 244
Reposted by Daniel LawlerThe Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Happy Bastille Day! From my 2021 piece @thebaffler.com on two 1938 films about the French Revolution, one by MGM's Norma Shearer the other by Renoir. "Same revolution, same world on fire, and yet the two filmmakers could not be in fiercer opposition to one another." thebaffler.com/latest/danci... 14310
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 11/07/2026(Read all about it in my book, out next year etc etc) 132
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026As a teenager, I meant to take my scientist mother to the gentle sci-fi movie Contact. Only once blood started flowing did I realise we were watching Event Horizon. My most harrowing cinematic experience. (And vale the legend Sam Neill) 030
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Exclusive: Two thirds of the EU's population was exposed to harmful levels of ozone pollution during last month's record-breaking heatwave. This is according to a new @globalwitness.org report about this "invisible threat" shared with me for @en.afp.com: www.yahoo.com/news/science...yahoo.comTwo thirds of EU faced harmful ozone levels during heatwave: reportTwo thirds of the European Union's population may have been exposed to harmful levels of ozone pollution during last month's record-breaking heatwave, a report exclusively shared with AFP warned Thurs... 021
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/07/2026"During my long career as France's leading shower designer, I have created every imaginable variety of highly unusable water dispenser systems, from the slightly inconvenient to the downright stupid. "buff.lyHelp, I’m Running Out of Ways to Make Showering in Europe Difficult“Ever have to hold an unwieldy, unmounted hose between your legs while you use the requisite two hands to open your body wash? C’est moi.” June 6 2022 6/23/2... 213414
Reposted by Daniel LawlerJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comRevealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concernsExclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection 421259592
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is such a good piece. 112
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I am absolutely obsessed with Neil the seal and his reign of terror in Tasmania. "He has to learn his fighting behaviour or his social behaviours by doing things like sparring with bollards and traffic cones and various other things." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 4457
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP Fact Check @factcheck.afp.com · 03/07/2026A falsified article claimed a Nobel prize winning biologist said he cured Clint Eastwood of Alzheimer's disease in a "60 Minutes" interview, despite the fact that the scientist never appeared on the show, there is no cure for Alzheimer's, and Eastwood has never shared a diagnosis.u.afp.comArticle falsely claims Japanese Nobel winner cured Alzheimer's diseaseThere is no cure for Alzheimer's disease, despite claims online that Japanese doctor Yoshinori Ohsumi won a Nobel Prize for discovering a treatment for the neurodegenerative disease -- a protocol… 096
Reposted by Daniel LawlerThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/07/2026Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakraborttytheguardian.comStarmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya ChakraborttyThe deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty 2214485
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 01/07/2026The world's oceans just experienced their hottest June on record and could set fresh highs in the months ahead as El Nino and climate change drive temperatures even higher 02527
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I wrote a diary about being very pregnant and very angry in a catastrophic heatwave that killed thousands. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHow I survived the record Paris heatwave while seven months pregnantIt feels as if we are being abandoned to our fate by those in power, with further extreme heat expected next week 112447
Reposted by Daniel LawlerThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/06/2026How I survived the record Paris heatwave while seven months pregnanttheguardian.comHow I survived the record Paris heatwave while seven months pregnantIt feels as if we are being abandoned to our fate by those in power, with further extreme heat expected next week 62912
Reposted by Daniel LawlerMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I have an exclusive in today's Observer. Four women who allege they were trafficked by Mohamed Al Fayed are filing complaints with the police watchdog over the Met's handling of their cases. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...observer.co.ukExclusive: Fayed abuse survivors complain to police watch...Women caught up in former Harrods owner’s network have filed formal complaints to IOPC about the Metropolitan police’s handling of their cases 22611
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Big scoop here by @megclement.bsky.socia (I notice a lot of UK media picking up the story without citing The Observer...) 221
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026A journalist from Malta describes his experience of the Parisian heatwave timesofmalta.com/article/thou...timesofmalta.comI thought I could handle the heat in Malta. Then I spent a heatwave in ParisThere is something especially stifling about the heat in a big city, writes Marc Galdes 000
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/06/2026The world's most powerful particle accelerator -- used to prove the existence of the so-called "God particle" -- will shut down Monday for four years to boost its collision capacity and the potential for unlocking the mystery of dark matter. u.afp.com/SK49 33213
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026New weird times in Paris weather - it will jump up seven degrees between 11pm and midnight tonight 000
Reposted by Daniel LawlerAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/06/2026🌡️ At least 193 million people across Europe are expected to experience temperatures above 35C on Saturday, AFP calculations found, up from Friday as the heatwave was set to shift eastwards. ➡️ u.afp.com/SK44 1103
Reposted by Daniel LawlerRick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The heat in Paris this week has been unbearable and inescapable. rick-morton.ghost.io/canic-at-the...rick-morton.ghost.ioCanic! At the DiscoEach year, on the summer solstice, Paris and most of France becomes what is essentially the world's largest outdoor party for Fête de la Musique. Bistros, restaurants, cafes and sundry businesses sat... 1113432
